[UgaBYTES] Local Content in East Africa

[Pete Cranston]

Thanks very much for this. I will add them to the list of organisations I want to contact. How would I find them?

Cheers

Pete

 Pete Cranston
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----- Original Message ----
> From: Mwathi Francis <mfrancis at ugabytes.org>
> To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
> Sent: Thursday, 21 May, 2009 12:25:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [UgaBYTES] Local Content in East Africa
> 
> Hallo Pete,
> 
> There is a group of University students that were involved recently in
> translating Mozilla Firefox into Luganda- the most spoken Language in
> Uganda. I understand that most of them are currently involved in a
> similar project involving Google. If possible I would recommend that
> you meet with them while in Uganda. They could be of great help.
> 
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Meddie Mayanja wrote:
> > Thanks, Pete
> >
> > I am sure the telecentre community in East African region will seize this 
> opportunity to broaden their local content activities or even initiate new ones. 
> Great that you have shared this.
> >
> > Best, Meddie
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org 
> [mailto:ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org] On Behalf Of Pete Cranston
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:52 PM
> > To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
> > Subject: [UgaBYTES] Local Content in East Africa
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > What are people and organisations in development in East Africa doing with 
> Local Content?
> >
> > I'm reviewing what has been happening in with Local Content since we last 
> worked in the area for the Open Knowledge Network, with IICD and with 
> telecentre.org. I am working with Peter Ballantyne and the reserch is for 
> www.ikmemergent.net. We'd like to hear from people and organisations who are 
> working in this field. We are interested connecting with the original partners 
> of those projects, but also with other people working on Local Content.
> >
> > When we talk about Local Content we mean "the expression of the locally owned 
> and adapted knowledge of a community - where the community is defined by its 
> location, culture, language, or area of interest", the definition used in Peter 
> Ballantyne's 2002 paper. We know that content is expressed in all forms - voice, 
> song, text, art objects, pictures and videos and many more. Increasingly this 
> content is being captured online, and newer Web 2.0 tools are also having an 
> impact.
> >
> > We are focusing on East Africa at this stage, partly because this is a small 
> piece of research and we want to look at issues in some detail and partly 
> because we know about some work that is happening in that region.
> >
> > Please get in touch if you'd like to talk about what is happening. I am 
> travelling to Kenya, and possibly Uganda, either in mid-June or mid July this 
> year, and would like to meet and talk to people who would like to be connected 
> to the research and develop ideas for how the subject could be developed.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > Pete Cranston
> > skype: petecranston
> > mobile: +44 (0)7917 390133
> >
> >
> >
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